Stories
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A doctor, his community and coronavirus
Reflecting on his experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic, GP Gavin Francis vividly recalls a home visit to a man stricken with breathing difficulties.
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The blood notebooks
Novelist Rupert Thomson explores his unusual behaviour during a time of self-imposed isolation.
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Losing touch
In these pandemic times, when touch has become taboo, Agnese Reginaldo explores the importance of physical contact to our wellbeing.
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
Catalogue
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A hospital plague ward: attendants wearing protective clothing including headmasks and gloves. Watercolour, 1915/1935 (?).
Date: 1915-1935Reference: 566929i
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Mosquito headnet and long protective gloves modelled by a man posed in front of a wall. Photograph, 1900/1920.
Date: 1900-1920Reference: 564254i- Pictures
A man welding, wearing protective headgear and gloves, representing the hazards that welders need to protect against. Colour lithograph for the Vereinigung der Metall-Berufsgenossenschaften, 2002.
Vereinigung der Metall-Berufsgenossenschaften.Date: 2002Reference: 757145i
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A worker in construction or in heavy manufacturing industry looking favourably at items of protective clothing; advertising the use of protective clothing in heavy industry. Colour lithograph, 1982.
Date: 1982Reference: 659558i- Pictures
A man being attacked by a many-headed hydra, being protected by protective clothing; representing protective clothing defending a worker from industrial accidents. Colour lithograph after L. Joveleaux, 1975 (?).
Joveleaux, L.Date: [1975?]Reference: 2002861i